Rehearsal Shots and Footage for Aladdin Released

Ahead of its West End premiere at the Prince Edward Theatre, rehearsal images for Aladdinhave been released today. From the producer of The Lion King, the new West End musical from Disney will debut at the Prince Edward Theatre on Wednesday 15 June 2016, with previews from Friday 27 May. Tickets are on general sale for performances up to and including 1 October 2016. For further details please visithttp://www.aladdinthemusical.co.uk

Dean John-Wilson plays the role of Aladdin alongside Jade Ewen as Jasmine in the new musical based on the classic Academy Award®-winning animated film. Broadway cast member Trevor Dion Nicholas makes his London stage debut as Genie and is joined by Don Gallagher as Jafar, Peter Howeas Iago, Irvine Iqbal as the Sultan, Nathan Amzi as Babkak,Stephen Rahman-Hughes as Kassim and Rachid Sabitri as Omar.

Now in its third record-breaking year on Broadway at the New Amsterdam Theatre, where it has been seen by more than 1.5 million people, Aladdin opened at Tokyo’s Dentsu Shiki Theatre Umi in May 2015 and had its European premiere in December 2015 at the Stage Theatre Neue Flora, Hamburg.Aladdin will open in Sydney, Australia in August 2016.

Previous Disney stage productions in London have includedShakespeare in Love and the Olivier-winning productions ofBeauty and the Beast,Mary Poppins and The Lion King, which is now playing its 17th record-breaking year in the West End.

The production team also includes illusion designer Jim Steinmeyer, hair designer Josh Marquette and makeup designer Milagros Medina-Cerdeira. The music team is headed by music supervisor and music director Michael Kosarin, who also created the vocal and incidental music arrangements, joined by orchestrator Danny Troob and dance music arranger Glen Kelly.

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